Wouldn't be better to spend this tiny amount of money with measures to prevent and control the emission of CO2 at the atmosphere?
Yes and no. Suppose you have a venereal disease with a really itchy rash, sure you want to cure the disease, but the anti-itch cream can be just as important to the patient. Ok just kidding get your pointer off the troll button. This project is just designed to counter one symptom of green house gas. One they are not sure will even happen. If gulf stream does shuts down (because of the vanishing artic ice pack) and the shut down causes a new European only ice age, Europe will have to expend a lot more energy for winter heating. So damned if you do damn if you don't. Even if tomorrow we all switch over to a non-polluting energy source, the CO2 is still in the atmosphere and the gulf stream could shut down before anyone figures out how to remove the CO2.
Moving a lot of water around in a closed system --bio-sphere-- is problematic though. What other effects will moving all the water around have -- flood draughts? I guess they say that's why they need a study. Seems more like a feel good project for Europe. See if the gulf stream does shut down we're not completely screwed.
What Microsoft really needs is some way of ensuring that software wears out at a similar speed to hardware
Yes, yes, what Microsoft really needs to do is follow the brillent example of the American Automotive industies' "built in obsolescence" -- that was started in the 1970 and has lead to America domnianass of the world automotive mark -- if the world consists of Detroit Michigan.
There was a recent CSI:Miami episode which implied women were getting embedded RFID chips with their Credit Card numbers... Anyone know if that sort of tech is really in use?
CNN had on a special called Top 25: Innovations. The long version of the show wasn't bad. It had a list of the top 25 technology innovations of the past 25 year. The list was compiled by MIT. One of the moderators clamed he a RFID implanted in his forearm only for use in retrieving medical data. RFID's were number 10 on the list. They have the cost of the RFIDs they use in products for Wal-mart down to near 10 cents now.
As an aside, though, has anyone noticed that when the "Star Trek" franchise introduces attractive women in tight-fitting outfits into the show, they are pandering to the young male audience...
True some how Star Trek up until Enterprise was less in your face with the boobies. I think it was the camera angle. 7 of 9 was more an A than a T and A. Enterprise was ground breaking in the use of use of briefs on Scott Bakula. I remember laughing at the episode where Scott Bakula was pacing up and down in his quarters wearing briefs with his "package" just above the bottom of the frame. That is hitting your marks. Ponders if the male crew in briefs contributed to the level of hastily toward the show. Maybe they should have gone with boxers;-)
Wow, am I the only one who likes Enterprise, and hates Battle Star in any incarnation? One hot andriod is no enough for me to get interested in Battle Star!
"Your door is ajar."
"Your taste in music is banal."
"RIAA validation code not found."
"Your door is closed and locked."
"Ingition disabled."
"RIAA lawyers and approprite law enforcement has been notifed."
"Please stand-by."
I read that Blizzard was surprised at how few people who bought Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 actually played it on line. It was around 15% I think. (As usual I forget where I read it.) I don't have WoW yet so I don't know if it has a good single player mode. I guess Blizzard has no motivation to make good single player modes any more. Maybe only on line player are expected to buy it. Ten to fifteen dollars a month sounds like a lot to me. I'd like to know what kind of load the game puts on a server what they use for a server and their bandwidth I'm renting out, before I commit to a monthly fee. D2 x-pack had multiple game crashing bugs two years after its release. Who could for get all the wonderful character deaths from the potion drop exception! It doesn't give me a good feeling about bug fixes for WoW.
The flame travels along the covering. If one of the internal hydrogen bags was the first to ignite there would be an explosion blowing the covering off and move the zepplin and quick jerky matter.
There was a great show on The Discovry Channel I think. About the Hindenggerg. The outter covering of the zepplin was a fabric covered in a petrolium product to make it water proof. The covering of the zepplin is what actually caught fire first. Not the hydrogen. If you watch the videos of the disaster you can see this is the case. The disaster was a lot like gas tank fires of today. The fire started from a static discharge between the docking tower and the zepplin. At the time of the Hindenberg disaster there was a conspericy theory involving the Germans. As you know Hitler was on the rise in Germany at the time. And many American saw him for what he was and did not want to give him any technolgy, for good reason. Hitler's goverment was interested in the process to produce Helium. And it wanted to use Helium for lift in the zepplins. The concperisy theories of the time was that the Germans rigged the Hindengberg to blow so America would share it's Heluim procution methods. This seem more probably to me then the parent's theory.
There would have been no point to blowing up the Hindengberg to discurage the use of hydrogen becuase, hydrogen only provided lift not fuel for the Hindengberg. And the exposive potencial of both gasoline and hydrogen was as well known then as it is today.
Apologies for the spelling but I'm on a public terminal with limit browser functions and in a hurry.
I read it in the Wall Street Journal last week. I don't remember the day. I'm too cheap to subscribe so I read the free one at the local deli shop. So I can't look it up on line.
Well it was just on the evening ABC news 40% of arthritis patints take Celebrex while about 5% should. If you really want to understand how the new drugs reach the market read http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pres cription/hazard/independent.html
I like the way plasma screens look at least the "young" ones say way, but If the USA is the main driver behind HDTV the drop in the US dollar (which is unlikely to stop while Bush is in the White House), will kill plasma. Unless there are markets in Asia which can pick up the slack from dropping USA sales. Even if Europe catches up to the USA in HDTV availability, I think controls on European retailing will keep the sales slow. My limited USA biases understanding of European retailers is that most of them have a fixed minumum mark up around 50% they must apply to consumer sale. If this is not the cast fill me in. I have not idea what the availably of HDTV is in Asia. I know Japan got burned on analog HDTV a while ago. What is going on in Japan, Singapore, Korea and Taiwan as far as HDTV goes now?
At MicroSoft we don't just make the holes. We make the holes bigger. Then we make you pay us to fixed them!
Come to think of it... shouldn't MicroSoft be buying Zone Labs for Zone Alarm?
I heard this on Charlie Rose. I just dont remember who said it or even the year:-) "If the price of operating systems had droppped as much as the cost of PC's the average OS would cost $5." So moderate me to almost informatice:-O
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I do belive drinking gasoline will still give you stomach cancer not matter how may times you run it through a filter. Just incase anyoen was thinking of trying it.
... IFilter, which is Microsoft Indexing Service's way of doing the same thing.
Hum indexing? It's that the "feature" I turned off so Windows XP would stop access my hard drive every 6 seconds and buring it out? Buring out hard drives now that is a radical new feature!
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Wouldn't be better to spend this tiny amount of money with measures to prevent and control the emission of CO2 at the atmosphere?
Yes and no. Suppose you have a venereal disease with a really itchy rash, sure you want to cure the disease, but the anti-itch cream can be just as important to the patient. Ok just kidding get your pointer off the troll button. This project is just designed to counter one symptom of green house gas. One they are not sure will even happen. If gulf stream does shuts down (because of the vanishing artic ice pack) and the shut down causes a new European only ice age, Europe will have to expend a lot more energy for winter heating. So damned if you do damn if you don't. Even if tomorrow we all switch over to a non-polluting energy source, the CO2 is still in the atmosphere and the gulf stream could shut down before anyone figures out how to remove the CO2.
Moving a lot of water around in a closed system --bio-sphere-- is problematic though. What other effects will moving all the water around have -- flood draughts? I guess they say that's why they need a study. Seems more like a feel good project for Europe. See if the gulf stream does shut down we're not completely screwed.
What Microsoft really needs is some way of ensuring that software wears out at a similar speed to hardware
Yes, yes, what Microsoft really needs to do is follow the brillent example of the American Automotive industies' "built in obsolescence" -- that was started in the 1970 and has lead to America domnianass of the world automotive mark -- if the world consists of Detroit Michigan.
There was a recent CSI:Miami episode which implied women were getting embedded RFID chips with their Credit Card numbers... Anyone know if that sort of tech is really in use?
CNN had on a special called Top 25: Innovations. The long version of the show wasn't bad. It had a list of the top 25 technology innovations of the past 25 year. The list was compiled by MIT. One of the moderators clamed he a RFID implanted in his forearm only for use in retrieving medical data. RFID's were number 10 on the list. They have the cost of the RFIDs they use in products for Wal-mart down to near 10 cents now.
Here is where those two grade degrees sure come in handy.
That is some fucked up shit!
As an aside, though, has anyone noticed that when the "Star Trek" franchise introduces attractive women in tight-fitting outfits into the show, they are pandering to the young male audience.. .
;-)
True some how Star Trek up until Enterprise was less in your face with the boobies. I think it was the camera angle. 7 of 9 was more an A than a T and A. Enterprise was ground breaking in the use of use of briefs on Scott Bakula. I remember laughing at the episode where Scott Bakula was pacing up and down in his quarters wearing briefs with his "package" just above the bottom of the frame. That is hitting your marks. Ponders if the male crew in briefs contributed to the level of hastily toward the show. Maybe they should have gone with boxers
Wow, am I the only one who likes Enterprise, and hates Battle Star in any incarnation? One hot andriod is no enough for me to get interested in Battle Star!
"Your door is ajar."
"Your taste in music is banal."
"RIAA validation code not found."
"Your door is closed and locked."
"Ingition disabled."
"RIAA lawyers and approprite law enforcement has been notifed."
"Please stand-by."
I read that Blizzard was surprised at how few people who bought Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 actually played it on line. It was around 15% I think. (As usual I forget where I read it.) I don't have WoW yet so I don't know if it has a good single player mode. I guess Blizzard has no motivation to make good single player modes any more. Maybe only on line player are expected to buy it. Ten to fifteen dollars a month sounds like a lot to me. I'd like to know what kind of load the game puts on a server what they use for a server and their bandwidth I'm renting out, before I commit to a monthly fee. D2 x-pack had multiple game crashing bugs two years after its release. Who could for get all the wonderful character deaths from the potion drop exception! It doesn't give me a good feeling about bug fixes for WoW.
The flame travels along the covering. If one of the internal hydrogen bags was the first to ignite there would be an explosion blowing the covering off and move the zepplin and quick jerky matter.
There was a great show on The Discovry Channel I think. About the Hindenggerg. The outter covering of the zepplin was a fabric covered in a petrolium product to make it water proof. The covering of the zepplin is what actually caught fire first. Not the hydrogen. If you watch the videos of the disaster you can see this is the case. The disaster was a lot like gas tank fires of today. The fire started from a static discharge between the docking tower and the zepplin. At the time of the Hindenberg disaster there was a conspericy theory involving the Germans. As you know Hitler was on the rise in Germany at the time. And many American saw him for what he was and did not want to give him any technolgy, for good reason. Hitler's goverment was interested in the process to produce Helium. And it wanted to use Helium for lift in the zepplins. The concperisy theories of the time was that the Germans rigged the Hindengberg to blow so America would share it's Heluim procution methods. This seem more probably to me then the parent's theory.
There would have been no point to blowing up the Hindengberg to discurage the use of hydrogen becuase, hydrogen only provided lift not fuel for the Hindengberg. And the exposive potencial of both gasoline and hydrogen was as well known then as it is today.
Apologies for the spelling but I'm on a public terminal with limit browser functions and in a hurry.
The only good pixel is a dead pixel.... oh wait nvm.
It doesn't export jobs fast enough!
Metalic pains are in vogue these day. Sounds like marketing ploy to boost sales to me. Yah I watch the House and Garden Network :-P
We go back to the autogyro :-P
The control panel looks like an oven to me. May it doubles as a toaster, or it's computer and easy bake oven?
I read it in the Wall Street Journal last week. I don't remember the day. I'm too cheap to subscribe so I read the free one at the local deli shop. So I can't look it up on line.
Well it was just on the evening ABC news 40% of arthritis patints take Celebrex while about 5% should. If you really want to understand how the new drugs reach the market read http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pres cription/hazard/independent.html
I like the way plasma screens look at least the "young" ones say way, but If the USA is the main driver behind HDTV the drop in the US dollar (which is unlikely to stop while Bush is in the White House), will kill plasma. Unless there are markets in Asia which can pick up the slack from dropping USA sales. Even if Europe catches up to the USA in HDTV availability, I think controls on European retailing will keep the sales slow. My limited USA biases understanding of European retailers is that most of them have a fixed minumum mark up around 50% they must apply to consumer sale. If this is not the cast fill me in. I have not idea what the availably of HDTV is in Asia. I know Japan got burned on analog HDTV a while ago. What is going on in Japan, Singapore, Korea and Taiwan as far as HDTV goes now?
At MicroSoft we don't just make the holes. We make the holes bigger. Then we make you pay us to fixed them!
:-) "If the price of operating systems had droppped as much as the cost of PC's the average OS would cost $5." So moderate me to almost informatice :-O
Come to think of it... shouldn't MicroSoft be buying Zone Labs for Zone Alarm?
I heard this on Charlie Rose. I just dont remember who said it or even the year
OK not really.
This does not seem equivanletn to a wire tap to me. He is only getting one side of the conversation. Not saying it a good idea either.
Depends on how much you drink :-P
I do belive drinking gasoline will still give you stomach cancer not matter how may times you run it through a filter. Just incase anyoen was thinking of trying it.
Hum indexing? It's that the "feature" I turned off so Windows XP would stop access my hard drive every 6 seconds and buring it out? Buring out hard drives now that is a radical new feature!
Here is the analogy you are looking for:
It's like putting 5 pounds of shit in a 4 pound capacity sack made from a pig's ear.
Never let ist be said that I dont know how to mize my metaphors!